Flag Waving

Chuck Munson chuck at tao.ca
Tue Jul 2 08:16:44 PDT 2002


Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
>
> You might want to check out this:
> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-07/asa-mso070102.php
> as a supplement to this story....
>
> For Immediate Release:
> July 1, 2002
>
> Suzanne Seurattan
> University Relations
> College of William and Mary
> (757) 221-1631
> scseur at wm.edu
>
> For those working on 4th of July Stories . . .
>
> A survey directed by J. Timmons Roberts, professor of
> sociology at the College of William and Mary found:
>
> * 3 out of 4 Americans (74%, 213 million) have been
> flying the flag at their home or on their car since
> the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks

This is complete bullshit! This is what people want to say to pollsters, but it doesn't reflect reality. I've been observing these behaviors since 9-11 and I would argue that a minority of people fly the flag from their car or from their home. If anything, the numbers of people flying the flag at home have gone down, while the prevalance of those magnetic car flag stickers has gone up. Still, I'll bet that if you look at cars in traffic for any length of time, most of them show no flags.

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